14th January 2009

[Becky]

Evolution of ATI’s Catalyst Driver for Radeon HD 4870
X-Bit Labs
Palit Revolution 700 (Radeon HD 4870 X2) Graphics Card
bit-tech
AMD Dragon Unleashed - Overclocking the Phenom II
Hardware Zone
Intel DG45FC ITX Motherboard
ASE Labs
Silverstone Strider 700W Power Supply
Bjorn 3D
FSP Fanless 400W PSU
Driver Heaven
Toshiba Tecra R10-10S Notebook
Inside HW
Fujitsu LifeBook N7010
Digital Trends
Lian-Li PC-888 Case
Hardware Secrets
NOX Coolbay HX Case
XSReviews

 

[Abarbarian]

Overclocking the Phenom was a good read. Ta.

 

[crazylegs]

Aye it was a good read with the Phenom getting to 3.8GHZ on air now that is impressive..Power hungry but impressive..

Anyone else notice how the little Core 2 Duo performed admirably in such company..I was very pleased as my new Sony Notebook runs a little more powerful chip than the one in the tests..

 

[Abarbarian]

Aye that E8500 looks darn good.
The Phenom II does not use a lot of power as standard so I guess if you had two profiles for it you could overclock it just for gaming. Then you would have a reasonably priced lowish power pc for all uses.

 

[Waynos_Face]

THe only good thing about phenom II is thats it still socket AM2+ so a good upgrade but its still £230 or £195 for the 2.8Ghz.

The AM3 socket Phenom II with DDR3 support should be the better processor, although i think they need to be cheaper to sway people from Intel Core 2 Quad.

Although from reading some other reviews it seems that all they have done is made the clocks higher and 25% extra cache and thats it.

Oh and it overclocks better.

I was actually looking forward to these being released as i'm looking into parts at the moment for my new PC in March/April time, but it seems to be a bit of an anti-climax again.

Will see how much i have to spend, if its £1000 i will get a Corei7, if not then i will wait another 4 weeks and get a Corei7

Hopefully by then the SSD you keep updating us with will be slighlty cheaper although i'm supposed to be off to America in 4 weeks so cheap shopping.